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Blizzard president J. Allen Brack said in the company’s Q1 earnings call<\/a> earlier this week that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands<\/em> is still on track to release at the end of the year.<\/p>

While Blizzard’s development team has been forced to transition to working from home due to COVID-19, Brack added that the developers are doing a \u201creally good job\u201d at shifting to the new methods of workflow.<\/p>

This past month, Blizzard opened up the closed alpha for Shadowlands<\/em>. Following a bit of testing, developers like Ion Hazzikostas have spent some time answers questions from select streamers on Twitch.<\/p>

In an interview a few weeks ago, Hazzikostas gave a similar confirmation to that of Brack\u2019s. Talking to a pair of French WoW<\/em> streamers, he said the company still planned<\/a> to have Shadowlands<\/em> out by the end of the year.<\/p>

In addition to telling reporters that Shadowlands<\/em> should still be coming in November or December, Brack added that Blizzard is seeing \u201cstrong pre-sales\u201d for the game, with WoW<\/em>\u2019s Western subscriber base growing in March.\u00a0<\/p>

Despite being consistent about Blizzard\u2019s release plans, Brack gave no indications about what the next step is for the WoW<\/em> development team or when those steps will take place. <\/p>

The Shadowlands<\/em> alpha went live on April 9. Since then, there have been a few additions and changes to the tested content. But there’s no word yet on when players can expect to see closed or open beta testing begin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"